An atlas of the wave energy resource in Europe

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OSTI ID:182695

Pontes, M T ^[1]; Athanassoulis, G A ^[2]; Barstow, S ^[3]; Cavaleri, L ^[4]; Holmes, B ^[5]; Mollison, D ^[6]; Oliveira-Pires, H ^[7]

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1. INETI-ITE, Lisbon (Portugal)
2. National Technical Univ., Athens (Greece)
3. OCEANOR S.A., Trondheim (Norway)
4. ISDGM, Venice (Italy)
5. University Coll., Cork (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
6. Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
7. Inst. de Meteorologia, Lisbon (Portugal)

This paper presents an Atlas of the European offshore wave energy resource that is being developed within the scope of an European project. It will be mainly based on wave estimates produced by the numerical wind-wave model WAM that is in routine operation at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK. This model was chosen after a preliminary verification of two models again buoy data for a one-year period. Wave measurements will be used for the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea. The Atlas will be produced as a user-friendly software package for MS-DOS microcomputers permitting fast retrieval of information as well as saving and printing of statistics and maps. The Atlas will include annual and seasonal statistics of significant wave height, mean and peak period, mean direction and wave power levels (global values as well as directional distributions). These data will be both presented as tables, graphs and as geographic maps.

• OSTI ID: 182695
• Report Number(s): CONF-950695-; ISBN 0-7918-1306-1; TRN: IM9608%%60
• Resource Relation: Conference: International conference on offshore mechanics and arctic engineering, Copenhagen (Denmark), 18-22 Jun 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of OMAE 1995 -- Proceedings of the 14. international conference on offshore mechanics and arctic engineering. Volume 1, Part A: Offshore technology; Chakrabarti, S.K. [ed.] [Chicago Bridge and Iron Technical Services, Plainfield, IL (United States)]; Myrhaug, D. [ed.] [Norwegian Inst. of Tech., Trondheim (Norway)]; Ertekin, R.C. [ed.] [Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)]; Maeda, Hisaaki [ed.] [Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)]; Wang, H.T. [ed.] [Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC (United States)]; PB: 523 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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16 TIDAL AND WAVE POWER
WAVE POWER
ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT
EUROPE
WATER WAVES
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
RESOURCE POTENTIAL
COMPILED DATA